Austin NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

Who: People interested in finding the other people working on projects addressing real-world problems (Innovators, Community Groups/Nonprofits, Investors, etc.)

What: Designing Environments For Social Innovation

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Greetings everybody,

Gordon Montgomery (@gmeta) your organizer here with a quick word about the next event format.

In an attempt to lift-off from the fantastic energy and feedbac... [read more]

Who: People interested in finding the other people working on projects addressing real-world problems (Innovators, Community Groups/Nonprofits, Investors, etc.)

What: Designing Environments For Social Innovation

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Greetings everybody,

Gordon Montgomery (@gmeta) your organizer here with a quick word about the next event format.

In an attempt to lift-off from the fantastic energy and feedback of recent events,

this month's event will provide a forum for Social Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Technologists interested in contributing to the direction of future projects. Please be sure to read the agenda below and be prepared to participate.

Goals of the meeting:

1. Cultivate ideas for designing an environment to help accelerate

the development and lift-off of social-benefit Projects

The Meeting Format:

6:30pm: Open networking

1. Introductions

2. Self-organizing based on experience/expertise

3. Whatâs broken with the way we design, develop and launch our Projects?

4. Group Presos. Volunteer reports findings back to the group.

5. Summary:

Designing an environment for community-based innovation

-- What happens if weâre wildly successful in designing an environment for Pro-Social Projects

-- Whatâs unique about our particular environment here in Austin as it relates to our focus?

6. Defining Net Tuesday Community Roles

7. Easy Next Steps

Participation Guidelines:

1. Inclusion.

Weâre committed to making sure we approach opportunities in an inclusive way.

A simple rule of thumb to help maintain this value throughout the event is to ensure your ideas and contributions allow for a broad range of community participation across both the private and public sector, and arenât limited to any single constituency.

2. Impactful.

Does your suggestion/ideas create real social impact?

3. Achievable.

Are your suggestions achievable based on the current local resources, and our existing collective capacity?

4. Teachable.

Does your suggestion allow us to âteachâ as we go?

5. Scalable.

Everything doesn't need to scale, but it's important to think about scaleability as we brainstorm, as the ultimate goal here is to develop a model that can be distributed to cities beyond Austin.